Top 44 Deed Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Deed Quotes from famous people such as Marianne Williamson, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Opal Tometi, Muhammad Iqbal, Eugene Simon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having b

Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.
Marianne Williamson
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump’s racist agenda – not only in word but in deed.
Opal Tometi
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal
The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that’s kind of my aspiration for the time being.
Eugene Simon
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
Sidney Poitier
Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
Abu Bakr
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Emile Zola
I know that Lorenzo Snow was God’s mouthpiece upon the earth, that he was the representative of the Lord, and that he was, in very deed, a prophet of God.
Heber J. Grant
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.
Shari Arison
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle
If you do a good deed, don’t expect anything back – the other person can still be a complete git.
Katie Hopkins
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
One brave deed makes no hero.
John Greenleaf Whittier
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.
Tom Hodgkinson
Don’t take the will for the deed; get the deed.
Lewis Mumford
The difficult part of writing about someone you don’t admire is that it’s easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.
Andrew Shaffer
Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. Housman
If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.
Josiah Royce
A good deed is a good deed.
John Lee Hancock
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare
I don’t support deed transfer of lands.
Greg Gianforte
For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
Thomas Mann
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
Roger Nash Baldwin
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
Charles Eastman
Even a smile is a good deed.
Shari Arison
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses… An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.
Coretta Scott King
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.
Paul Di Filippo
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
Jonathan Sacks
My mother’s family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
Alexander Chee
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles
Deed, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
Frank Pittman